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Basic Trope: Fairies are portrayed as vicious, amoral creatures.

  • Straight: The "Fair Folk" kidnap children, torment mortals, and cause mayhem wherever they roam.
  • Exaggerated: The Fair Folk are as bad as Eldritch Abominations, if not ones themselves.
  • Justified: They operate under Blue and Orange Morality, and neither understand nor care about human morals.
  • Inverted: Fairy Companion.
  • Subverted: The Fair Folk are mischievous Tricksters, but they cause nothing more than minor mischief and annoyance, and side with good when the time comes.
  • Double Subverted:The Fair Folk are mischevious Tricksters, but cause nothing more than minor mischief and annoyance... until the opprotunity to wreak true mayhem arises, and they take it with gleeful abandon.
  • Parodied: The Fair Folk are ridiculous, Sugar Bowl fairies whose pitiful attempts to cause mischief never cross beyond Poke the Poodle.
  • Deconstructed: The Fair Folk try to continue their mischief and mayhem into the modern age, only to be revealed and find out that Muggles Do It Better.
  • Reconstructed: The Fair Folk adapt to the modern age quite nicely, adding ruthless hacking and deadly Magitek weapons to their arsenal.
  • Zig Zagged: Some fairies are evil, others arent. Some fairies may swing alignments depending on the situation.
  • Averted: Fairies are many things, but cruelly malicious is not one of them.
  • Enforced: The work is an adaptation of old myths, from when fairies were genuinely feared.
  • Lampshaded: "I was expecting pretty winged women, not amoral psychopaths!"
  • Invoked: A depraved ruler takes over the Fair Folk, and decides to use her powers to torment and destroy humans For the Evulz.
  • Defied: The ruler of the Fair Folk, whether due to morality or fear of retribution, keeps a tight rein on her followers.
  • Discussed: "You ever read the old myths about fairies? They weren't always nice..."
  • Conversed: "Why is it that when people want to make fairy tales Darker and Edgier, they always make the fairies old-fashioned 'evil' ones?

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